AN ARMY OF DETROITERS IS OUT IN FORCE. AND SEEKING JUSTICE FOR JAKARI. TWO MEN ARE CHARGED WITH THE SHOOTING DEATH OF AN 8-YEAR-OLD BOY HIT BY A BULLET AS HE SLEPT IN HIS BED. IT'S THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE OF AN INNOCENT CHILD CAUSE IN THE CROSSFIRE OF FEUDING ADULTS. Karen: HE NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO PROTECT HIMSELF BECAUSE HE WAS ASLEEP WHEN A BULLET CAME INTO HIS BEDROOM. TWO SUSPECTS ARE GOING TO TRIAL FOR HIS MURDER. PRIYA MANN JOINS US THIS AFTERNOON. SO MUCH EMOTION SURROUNDING THIS CASE, PRIYA. Priya: AND A LOT OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS TODAY. THE JUDGE SAID THE MOTIVE HERE WAS AN ACCUSATION THAT CALVIN MOSBY ROBBED THE VICTIM'S MOTHER AND IN RETALIATION, THE PROSECUTION ALLEGED MOSBY SHOT THE VICTIM THROUGH HIS BEDROOM WINDOW. THE PROSECUTION CALLED TODAY SIX PEOPLE TO THE STAND, INCLUDING THE VICTIM'S MOTHER. JAKARI PEARSON'S MOTHER SAID CALVIN MOSBY LEFT HER A VOICE MAIL SEEING HE DOESN'T BREAK INTO HOMES BUT KILL THEM. HE THREATENED TO KILL JAKARI AND HIS MOTHER. HE KNEW WHERE HE SLEPT AND AIMED THE GUN AT THE WINDOW. TWO WITNESSES SAID THEY SAW HIM LEAVING THE AREA. I'LL KILL EVERYBODY! HE USED DIRECT THREATS. HE SPECIFICALLY REFERENCES MONA AND HER SON JAKARI. AND LATER THAT NIGHT THERE'S A SHOOTING, A SHOOTING AT THE BACK OF THE HOUSE WHERE JAKARI SLEEPS, WHERE HIS MOTHER OFTEN SLEEPS WITH HIM. Priya: HE FACES A NUMBER OF CHARGES, INCLUDING FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO MURDER. DEVAUNTE STARKS ADMITS HE ROBBED THE WOMAN'S HOUSE AND WAS WITH MOSBY WHEN HE GOT THE AK-47 AND TWRAVLD HIM TO THE HOME THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING. THE JUDGE DROPPED TWO ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO MURDER CHARGES AGAINST STARKS BUT ADDED HOME INVASION, ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT AND CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON, IT'S ALLEGED THAT STARKS TOOK THE AK-47 FROM MOSBY AND COVERED IT UP IN HIS HOODIE. BOTH WILL STAY BEHIND BARS AND ARE EXPECTED TO BE BACK IN COURT SEPTEMBER 11th.

DETROIT -

A man and teenager were bound over Thursday to stand trial in the death of an 8-year-old boy who was shot while sleeping in his Detroit home.

Calvin Mosby, 28, and Devaunte Starks, 17, were both charged with first-degree murder in the July 30 slaying of Jakari Pearson. The bullet that hit him in the chest went through a wall at the Brewster Homes public housing project.

However, after hearing from several witnesses, Judge Kenneth King ordered Mosby to stand trial on the murder charge but dismissed the same charge for Starks.

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Starks was instead bound over on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, being an accessory to a crime and second-degree home invasion.

Prosecutors have described Pearson's death as a retaliatory shooting.

Pearson's mother, Samona Cochran, told the court she had dated Mosby in the past and confronted him the day before the shooting about a break-in at her house. She said she thought he might have been responsible. Cochran said Mosby left her angry voice mails throughout the day.

She said she put her son to bed and was jolted awake a few hours later by him crying.

“I ran instantly because it was a cry I had never heard before," she said. “I flipped him over and there was a hole in his chest.”

He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Several neighbors who lived in the same complex as Pearson and his mother testified that they heard Mosby saying he was going to "kill that (expletive)" for accusing him in the break-in.

According to a statement read in court by Detroit Police Officer Moses Jimenez, who interviewed Starks, it was Starks who admitted to breaking into the house not knowing the connection between Mosby and Cochran.

Starks said he was with Mosby when they met up with a third person who gave Mosby an AK-47. Starks said he saw Mosby aim the gun at Pearson's bedroom and heard the gun go off. After the shooting, Starks said he wrapped the gun in his sweatshirt and hid it.

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